Technical design of Silicon-Tungsten ECAL of ILD reaches milestone
The SiW-ECAL is one of the designated detector technologies for the ILC’s planned ILD detector. (Read more about it here.) Sandwiched between the tracking detectors and the hadronic calorimeter, it would measure the energies of electrons and photons emerging from the collisions, and catch the first hadronic interactions Over the years and continuous improvement of prototypes, […]
SLAC prepares for a test beam of an electromagnetic calorimeter specific to the proposed SiD detector
Researchers are taking a step towards the realisation of the International Linear Collider’s (ILC) SiD detector with a test beam of a SiD-specific electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) planned for this month at SLAC. This initial test beam could actually be considered a “test” test beam, as this run will utilise a partial calorimeter. Researchers involved in […]
Power-pulsing tests on the SiW electromagnetic calorimeter yield promising results
Particle detectors are expected to detect a lot of signal and very little background noise so that scientists can see what went on in their detector without being distracted by irrelevant signals. The technological prototype of the silicon-tungsten (SiW) electromagnetic calorimeter passed its first test in summer 2012 with flying colours with a signal to noise […]
Building a state-of-the-art particle detector requires several steps. When you’ve decided what you want to measure, you have to decide which is the best, fastest and most reliable technology to make these measurements. When you’ve shown that your chosen technology can actually measure things to the specific requirements, you have to show that you can […]
Technological prototype of scintillator-strip calorimeter in its first test beam
A team of two scientists and four students from Shinshu University of Japan and Kyungpook National University of Korea have just packed up their cables, laptops and scintillator strips and left a test beam at DESY with many interesting results in their luggage. They tested the scintillator-strip-based electromagnetic calorimeter (ScECAL), one of the potential layers […]